GPL only requires providing build scripts for GPL software. In this case it means they can't strip kernel makefiles from the kernel source to make it harder to build independently.
First time I hear of RFC7710, all I see is HTTP hijacking. Does anybody support it, in particular OS vendors? I suppose some new UI or a new API for browsers would be required.
> much more diverse tech industry and a much more functional one.
As a Darwinist of sorts, I'm afraid that if this actually were true, we would be seeing some serious disruption of those nerds by much more functional diverse teams. The cat's been of the bag for so many years that somebody ought to have exploited it by now. But so far, it seems that one poster child example of a company which made tons of money bringing computing to the masses is Apple, under the lead of no one else but You Know Who, and (allegedly) with quite obsessive, arrogant, nitpicking and abrasive people working under him.
> In fact, if GitHub were a less popular service he wouldn't need to spend nearly as much time dealing with people who don't RTFM and submit GitHub PRs despite Linus' objections to them.
Does he even bother reading them nowadays?
If anything, I would say that if git were less popular, its developers wouldn't have to deal with constant complaints that their UI scares noobs.
> He really talks in extremes. I see all his points but it doesn't make these things pure garbage.
Why, from his point of view - if GH lacks functionality he needs and git proper delivers this functionality in conjunction with email, GH is just about as useful as an empty beer can ;)
But sure, outsiders with zero idea of what is being discussed love to take his words out of context and derive all sorts of bizarre conclusions.
Can't speak for the OP, but as a (maybe possibly somewhat arrogant) man, the most I have ever mustered towards unwanted people bothering me was cold, superficial politeness, just barely enough that they can't say I'm wronging them. Not sure if that counts as being "nice" under intimidation.
> I sometimes meet people, most (all?) of them women, who were not nice to one idiot groping them and woke up in the hospital.
In Europe? I suppose it's possible in some pathological neighborhoods but I would be surprised to hear it's a common occurrence. But then, I guess, once per lifetime is dangerous enough, as you say.
Therefore there is suspicion that spooks may have been using that for years and revealed it once they've had enough for some reason. I'm not familiar with any proven case of such situation, but people speculate.
Everybody knows it and I wouldn't be bringing attention to myself like that if I used flags often enough to care, I come here in part to read about all sorts of weird stuff people post and flagging is largely counterproductive to that. Plus I doubt that I'm going to have it disabled for merely selective enforcement of the official guidelines.
This looks funny, it seems that RDI is never modified by the loop (?) so lines 18-24 always load the same data, presumably from L1. It's mysterious why of all those instructions, 20 and 24 get most interrupt hits.
People working on OpenZFS are unlikely to switch licenses, but somebody (presumably a company) could possibly develop an "improved" fork to make money on it and refuse to contribute back, at which point Oracle would be forced to switch to GPL if the fork takes off.
Dunno, it's just a hypothetical question and speculation whether there are any sensible reasons for Oracle to maintain status quo.
FDE isn't really "full disk" because it still leaves the kernel image unencrypted so that it is accessible to the bootloader. This image can then be maliciously edited by an "evil maid" attacker.
Chromebooks use kernel signing to prevent this. The problem is, Google doesn't give you keys to your hardware so you have to replace them yourself or use devmode which disables kernel verification.
Another possible solution is to keep the kernel on an external, physically secured pendrive and never forget to press CTRL-U during boot (to stop a hypothetical attack involving a malicious kernel installed to the internal flash which exfiltrates your FDE passphrase or something like that).
I flagged it because such stories are dime in a dozen and this one brings zero new information¹, solves nothing² and mainly just perpetuates hostility³.
1. See the "off-topic" paragraph quoted above why it's relevant. And, BTW, this rule makes sense - when it comes to politics, usually both sides have already heard all arguments and if they still remain in disagreement, repetition is unlikely to bring anything but flamewar.
2. See paragraph above.
3. Which in itself might be a good reason, although I'm admittedly stretching it here because I selfishly refuse to take responsibility for other people's emotions and if I found this story interesting, I would have probably upvoted it. I upvoted that one for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14692038 because I found TFA informative and there is nothing you can do about it.
> Because you dislike the narrative it establishes?
Absolutely, it's harmful because words like "hostile", "sexism", "harassment", etc suggest malicious intent which usually just isn't there. It antagonizes men who have no intention of harming women and scares women in situations when no harm was actually meant. It deprives women of ability to effectively complain by making them question whether it makes sense to bring it up with the offender at all. And even when they decide to talk about it, it pre-trains them to paint it as oppression which predictably gets reactions ranging from "WTF" to "we don't give a fuck, your paranoia is your problem".
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
I too normally dislike things disappearing from the front page in 5 minutes but I made an exception for this submission and flagged it because such stories are dime in a dozen and this one brings zero new information, solves nothing and mainly just perpetuates hostility.
> "Micro aggressions", rape, lives being "destroyed", "emoji-induced tears", and violence undermine the point of the article. Tragically comedic hyperbole.
They aren't hyperbole. Women don't have balls and it's an open question if they ever will. I actually can believe that she really cried, which takes this to a whole new level of crazy. The problem is that feminists see responses like that, figure out that men obviously must be disbelieving them in order to protect patriarchy and they grow even more scared to stand up for themselves and cry wolf even more. So you get the opposite of what you want.
There are no female coworkers on an all-male team, you just rejected such jokes on principle.
And no, I'm not from SV. I think many developers from all over the world, particularly of the sort hanging out at HN, will consider your stance somewhat crazy.